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How to clean up an accidental bootstrap run on SUSE Manager

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Environment

SUSE Manager 1.7SUSE Manager 2.1

Situation

By accident, a bootstrap script was executed on SUSE Manager. This document explains the necessary steps to revert the changes as SUSE Manager itself was not designed to fetch updates from its own hosted repositories.

Resolution

Edit /etc/suseRegister.conf and change the entry in "url =" back to

url = https://secure-www.novell.com/center/regsvc/

Delete the contents of the following directories but not the directories themselves:

/var/cache/zypp

/etc/zypp/credentials.d/

/etc/zypp/services.d/

/etc/zypp/repos.d/

Use the suse_register command or yast inst_suse_register to register the SUSE Manager back with the Novell Customer Center

Delete the server profile in the SUSE Manager web interface.

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